Welcome to insanity

Chapter 1

Breathe. In. out. In. out. Ignore the sounds of the crowd. Focus on the music; don't let them get to you. Don't show them your nerves. These thoughts played on repeat in his head as one by one the spot lights illuminated each member, first Otabek in the dj booth, then JJ on the drums, phichit on bass, Emil on guitar, then to Christophe and finally, Yuri in the middle of the stage, microphone in hand ready to start the first number of the night.

It didn't matter how many concerts they have done, how many tours they did, there was always moments of anxiety from the main singer. But once he completed his routine and the music started, he was in his world, ready to show the world what he was made of.

"Thank you everybody! Whose ready to rock out!" he yelled into the mic, to be met with roaring cheers from the fans. He grins as he scans the room and subtly nods his head for the start of the show. The music and sound affects started from Otabek and JJ and Yuri and Christophe stepped up and let the words flow through.

"Falling too fast to prepare for this
Tripping in the world could be dangerous
Everybody circling, it's vulturous
Negative, nepotist

Everybody waiting for the fall of man
Everybody praying for the end of times
Everybody hoping they could be the one
I was born to run, I was born for this"

Chris joins in with his usual charm and intense sex appeal, bringing the crowd almost to their knees in worship of the two sexier than sin men

"Whip, whip
Run me like a racehorse
Pull me like a ripcord
Break me down and build me up
I wanna be the slip, slip
Word upon your lip, lip
Letter that you rip, rip
Break me down and build me up

Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do whatever it takes
'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes
Yeah, take me to the top I'm ready for
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do what it takes"

Yuri grins and walks to the edge of the stage hand held out to touch the fans closest to them, winking at a few smirking when they practically faint. Oh if only they knew the truth.

"Always had a fear of being

Looking at my body feeling miserable
Always hanging on to the visual
I wanna be invisible

Looking at my years like a martyrdom
Everybody needs to be a part of 'em
Never be enough, I'm the prodigal son
I was born to run, I was born for this

Whip, whip
Run me like a racehorse
Pull me like a ripcord
Break me down and build me up
I wanna be the slip, slip
Word upon your lip, lip
Letter that you rip, rip
Break me down and build me up

Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do whatever it takes
'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes
Yeah, take me to the top, I'm ready for
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do what it takes

Hypocritical, egotistical
Don't wanna be the parenthetical, hypothetical
Working onto something that I'm proud of, out of the box
An epoxy to the world and the vision we've lost
I'm an apostrophe
I'm just a symbol to remind you that there's more to see
I'm just a product of the system, a catastrophe
And yet a masterpiece, and yet I'm half-diseased
And when I am deceased
At least I go down to the grave and die happily
Leave the body and my soul to be a part of thee
I do what it takes

Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do whatever it takes
'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes
Yeah, take me to the top, I'm ready for
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do what it takes!"

The last now fades out as Yuri stalks across the stage to his spot in the middle smirking at the crowd. "we have a new song for you tonight! Are you ready!?" the crowd just roared again in applause. "we wrote this to celebrate joining the greats in the hall of fame!"

"Yeah, you can be the greatest, you can be the best
You can be the King Kong bangin' on your chest
You can beat the world, you can beat the war
You can talk to God, go bangin' on his door

You can throw your hands up, you can beat the clock (Yeah)
You can move a mountain, you can break rocks
Some will call it practice, some will call it luck
But either way you're going to the history book

Standin' in the Hall of Fame (Yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (Yeah)
'Cause you burn with the brightest flame (Yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (Yeah)
And you'll be on the walls of the Hall of Fame

You can go the distance, you can run the mile
You can walk straight through hell with a smile
You can be a hero, you can get the gold
Breakin' all the records they thought never could be broke (Yeah)

Do it for your people, do it for your pride
How you ever gonna know if you never even try?
Do it for your country, do it for your name
'Cause there's gon' be a day, when you're

Standin' in the Hall of Fame (Yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (Yeah)
'Cause you burn with the brightest flame (Yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (Yeah)
And you'll be on the walls of the Hall of Fame

On the walls of the hall of fame

Be students, be teachers
Be politicians, be preachers
Yeah

Be believers, be leaders
Be astronauts, be champions
Be truth-seekers

Be students, be teachers
Be politicians, be preachers
Yeah

Be believers, be leaders
Be astronauts, be champions

Standing in the hall of fame (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
'Cause you burn with the brightest flame (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame

You could be the greatest, you can be the best
You can be the King Kong banging on your chest

You could beat the world, you could beat the war
You could talk to God, go banging on his door
You can throw your hands up, you can beat the clock
You can move a mountain, you can break rocks

Some will call it practice, some will call it luck
But either way you're going to the history books

Standing in the hall of fame!"

Several hours and 2 encores later, the men were all gathered in their hotel suite winding down from one of the biggest shows they had done in months. They were all buzzing for the adrenaline and alcohol that seemed endless. JJ was on one of the couches, his conquest of the night in his lap as he leaned back, glass of jack in one hand and the other running his fingers through the girls' hair. Chris and phichit were scrolling through their social media pages and taking shots, Otabek was in the corner reading and sipping on his beer. Yuri on the other hand was busy fighting off the never ending advances of his drunken manager, former rock star, Victor Nikiforov. While in public the man acted professionally, but give him vodka and he became a totally different person, someone who liked to flirt and flirt hard, and his usual victim was Yuri. It was no secret to the others in the room that both men were gay but they weren't a couple. Not by a long shot. Yuri has told them many times it's a bad idea to date your manager, it never ended well. So even as he was attracted to the platinum blond man with a voice that oozed sex, he would never act upon the attraction. He wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.

"Victor, no weve been over this, we are not doing this. You are drunk and I'm not interested!" the dark haired man lied.

"But Yuuuurrriii! You're so beautiful! I want to make you mine! We would set the world on fire with our love!" Victor whined practically crawling into the shorter mans lap trying to kiss his face. Yuri just sighed and looked over to Chris for help. Out of everyone there Chris was the only one able to manhandle the other blond and get him to behave. No one was exactly sure why.

"Come on Yuri. Maybe if you give in you'll actually have fun! Or he'll leave you alone cause it's out of his system!" JJ called out loudly laughing his head off. Yuri just shot him an annoyed look and shook his head.

"Here's a better idea JJ, you fuck him. You seem like his type. Maybe he can gag you so you can't run that big mouth of yours. Seems big enough to suck cock anyway!" Yuri shot back flipping him off, grinning when the drummer shut up and decided to take his conquest to his room before anyone else could say anything.

Chris finally decides to take pity on him and come over, still choking on his laughter, to remove Victor and bring him to the now vacant couch.

"Come on Victor. You've harassed the poor boy enough for one night. Come let's sit back and enjoy the night. Besides, you know I am willing to share your bed anytime."

Yuri let out an inaudible sigh as his irritant was dragged away. Lifting his drink he called attention to his fellow band mates to congratulate them on a great show and threaten them with bodily harm, should they wake him up before noon. He tossed the last of the golden liquid back and rose from his seat, making his way to his room, shutting his door and effectively drowning out the noise from victor and Chris's drunk flirtations. Within moments of hitting the bed he was asleep.